This collection includes folk tales, fairy tales, and more modern stories of adventure, excitement and growing up. It contains work from our best-loved writers - Jonathan Swift, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Brian Friel, Mary Lavin - as well as discoveries from little-known authors, and specially commissioned translations from Irish language classics.
Edited by Eilis Dillon, Pat Donlon, Peter Fallon and Pat Egan.
This is Book 2 in the Lucky Tree Books Series. See all Lucky Tree Books books here.
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Eilis Dillon was born in Galway in 1920. Abandoning a career as a professional cellist, she turned to writing for adults and children, quickly earning an international reputation for both.
Eilis lived in Italy for six years in the 1960s, then divided her time between Ireland and California, until her final years which were spent in Ireland. She died in Dub
